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OK – you’ve had weeks of sweets, chocolate and high fat
Christmas fare – now it’s time to make amends. Fortunately,
you couldn’t be in a better place to eat healthily.
Lanzarote´s all year-round summer climate means
that light food is never off the menu here. Amazingly,
local produce is almost all light and healthy, as well.
Start with the fruit and vegetables that are either
grown on this island or shipped in from Gran
Canaria. There couldn´t be anything fresher and
tastier than small local Canarian bananas (so
much better than the mealy Caribbean ones the
rest of Europe gets), and
at this time of year you´ll
discover that mandarins,
oranges, lemons and
exotic kakis and
cherimoyas are very much in season.
If you want something a little more
substantial head to the fish counter
where you´ll also find plenty of choice.
Fish is lean, packed with vitamins
and essential oils and is one of
those magical foods that seems to
be intrinsically associated with
long-lived, healthy old people
everywhere from Japan to the
Mediterranean. Make sure
you’re getting your fill.
Even the meat on Lanzarote offers plenty of opportunity
for healthy eating. Local goat meat is not just lean and
delicious, but won´t be packed with antibiotics and other
chemicals, as many mass produced meats are. You´ll also
find plenty of lean, healthy chicken – another local
favourite – and terrific lean beef from Argentina.
On a sporty, health-conscious island such as Lanzarote,
restaurants and cafés have been quick to capitalize on the
demand for healthy products, and
it´s not hard to find freshlysqueezed fruit juice, organically
produced meals and even entire
menus that are dedicated to
keeping your body satisfied as well as in perfect shape.
The best thing about making a resolution to eat more
healthily is that you´ll find your whole way of life slowly
changing so that you will no longer want that stodgy,
unhealthy processed food. Healthy food tends to cultivate
the bodies it enters, causing a perfectly healthy craving for
fresh, good products – it´s a yearning that is very different
from the cravings you get for junk food. Why? Because it´s
your body, not your mind, that´s placing the order – and
your body knows what´s good for it. So embrace the
fresh, the crunchy, the light and the tasty and feel the
difference immediately!
“I will eat
more healthily”
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